Example sentences of "[vb past] in the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 2 | The novel mentioned in the second article is a Winter Man Mills and Boon masquerade |
| 3 | Bull exploited hesitancy in the Polish defence when he headed in the second goal in the 36th minute , again from a Smith cross , after good work by David Batty . |
| 4 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
| 5 | However , the ‘ Madonna and Child with Saints Mary Magdalen and Sebastian ’ housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , also painted in the second decade of the century , raises questions of a quite different kind . |
| 6 | As a result , illegitimacy and irregular marriage possibly receded in the second half of the century as working-class women sought refuge in chastity and conventional marriage . |
| 7 | Rangers had taken the lead through Sinton before Gray equalised in the second half , Gordon Durie grabbing the winner 11 minutes from time although Spurs manager Peter Shreeves admitted his team were lucky to win . |
| 8 | Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes . |
| 9 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again . |
| 11 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 12 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 13 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 14 | There were few moments to excite the crowd and the only note of controversy came in the second set when McNeil received a warning for slamming the ball out of court as she trailed 3–1 . |
| 15 | The chance for a local winner came in the second race , the Arkle Challenge Trophy . |
| 16 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 17 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 18 | Next season , when he made his sole first-class century ( 101 against WA at Perth ) , he played in the second Test against South Africa , at Melbourne , and took four wickets . |
| 19 | Robertson confirmed in the second paragraph of his signal that " movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage on our L of C. He therefore informed McCreery that AFHQ would be " approaching 12th Army Group immediately " to ask them to accept all German surrendered personnel from 5 Corps , with the exception of " arrestable categories " , such as SS . |
| 20 | In the first year , right , there was not enough rain , right , in order to swell the tubers , right , presumably the same thing happened in the second year , but no , the reason why er , yields were very low in nineteen seventy four , was because there was too much rain . |
| 21 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 22 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 23 | Master Mansell INDYCAR points leader Nigel Mansell turned in the second fastest time today in the first day of qualifying for tomorrow 's Detroit Grand Prix . |
| 24 | I think he he had a really good first half I think it like , I think that to be fair , apart from Coleman an Southgate everybody faded in the second half did n't they ? |
| 25 | Our clear frustration showed in the second half and we are as disappointed as our fans . |
| 26 | Willie joined in the second time round . |
| 27 | By the end of the decade , well over half of those who qualify for assistance will be aged over 80 , mainly those who served in the Second World War or their widows . |
| 28 | In the name of God Almighty , Father , Son and Holy Spirit , we dedicate this museum to the memory of all those of the Eighth Army Air Force who served in the Second War and in our dedication , we pray to Almighty God that there may be no third . |
| 29 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 30 | Occupation began in the second century , being represented by pebbled spreads associated with several poorly recorded timber buildings , one of which contained ovens and hearths . |